Alex Mateas Named To Rimington Spring Watch ListSenior center started all 13 games for the Huskies last year and has 17 career starts.

Alex Mateas

May 19, 2014

NEW YORK -
University of Connecticut senior center Alex Mateas (Ottawa, Ont.) has been named to the 2014 Spring Watch List by the Rimington Trophy Committee. The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA FBS football.

Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $2.5 million for the cystic fibrosis community. The 14-year-old award is overseen by the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which is committed to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis.

Mateas started all 12 games for the Huskies at center in 2013 - one of three Huskies to do that on the offensive line and the only returning player for '14. He started the first four games and the last one for the Huskies in 2012 for a total of 17 career starts.

Mateas is a two-time member of the Big East/American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.

The award is named after Dave Rimington, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and `82, during which time he became the Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.

The winner will be recognized at the Rimington Trophy Presentation in Lincoln, Neb. on Saturday, January 17, 2014.